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#10. Best Price Performance There are cheaper single board computers out there, but starting at $99 the Parallella board is still the leader in terms of price/performance. 18 CPU cores, Gigabit Ethernet, 1GB RAM, and a Field Programmable Gate Array for $99 is a great deal! #9. Made in the USA The Parallella board was designed and manufactured locally here in New England…

The program schedule for the first ever Parallella Technical Conference (PTC) has been finalized and we have a great set of talks lined up thanks to participation from 4/7 continents. Amazing! Talks span the gamut: from "how to get going with Parallella" to maximizing floating point performance for High Performance Computing. Date: May 30th Location: Tokyo, “DMM.make” Akiba (https://akiba.dmm-make.com/) Agenda: 14:00-18:00...

Brown Deer Technology (BDT) is excited to announce that we have demonstrated the use of MPI for programming the Epiphany architecture. Programming is easy and the performance has been incredible. In this post I will share an overview of what is being developed and highlight an example of its application to a 2D FFT. MPI, the overlooked API for Epiphany….

Last summer we started migrating the elink from Xilinx ISE to the new Vivado tools while also doing a complete overhaul of the design to improve performance, power, and maintainability. There is still optimization work to be done in terms of elink read/write performance, but I consider the new design to be a high quality starting point for future work. The new…

We have shipped well over 10,000 Parallella computers across the globe and we are now ready to move on to the next phase of making parallel computing ubiquitous. Unfortunately the energy needed to escape the current “von Neumann potential well” seems to be approaching infinity. The legacy programming stack is so effective and so easy to use that developers and…

A few weeks ago I gave a talk to a group of graduate students at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden. The talk was part of a 12 week course (Chalmers Computing Labs Tech Talks) intended to bridge the world of academia and industry by inviting speakers to talk about difficult product problems (and solutions) from different industries. Professor…

By all measures I am a very lucky guy. Weird serendipitous things happen so often that I have stopped being surprised. For example, what are the chances that the high school kid living next door would turn out to be an absolute engineering rock star? Well here in Lexington, MA (highest # of PhD per capita in the US), I suppose the…

While the Parallella board is capable of delivering industry leading GFLOPS/watt performance (doing more with less energy), it is a small and densely populated board and it’s vital that adequate cooling is provided. Without which there may be temporary or even permanent failures. Kickstarter boards and those ordered via the Adapteva shop prior to 10th July came supplied with a…

Parallella Programming Challenge Rev 0.0 Goal To create a fun competition where a new generation of programmers can be challenged and gain experience in parallel algorithms and parallel programming. Hardware Platform All teams will use identical parallel hardware platform consisting of FOUR Parallella (16+2)-core boards connected together through a Gigabit Ethernet switch. Hardware modifications are allowed but teams are not…